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Trump’s Spokesperson Blames Obama for Capt. Khan’s Death in 2004

She is a perfect fit. Donald Trump is known for lying at the drop of a dime, so why shouldn’t his spokesperson do the same? Lying is probably the only qualification needed to be Trump’s spokesperson.

During a discussion with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Donald Trump’s campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson was asked if her boss had any plans to apologize to the Khan family for suggesting that Ghazala Khan, Humayun’s grieving mother, was not “allowed” to speak at last week’s Democratic National Convention because she is Muslim.

What exactly is Mr. Trump supposed to be apologizing for?” Pierson asked. “It was under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that changed the rules of engagements that probably cost his life.”

NOTE: Social Media lambasted Pierson for her comment. She later took back her claim that Obama was responsible for Captain Khan’s death.

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Obama Calls Out Republican Leaders for Failure to Denounce Donald Trump 

It has been a disastrous campaign from day one but somehow, maybe because he said all the things that stroke the Republicans’ ego, Donald Trump managed to outwit and outlast all the other contenders for president.But when Trump decided to take on Gold Parents, Khizr and Gazala Khan, whose son died in Iraq while defending the United States, the current Commander-in-Chief refused to stay quiet.

​Obama called Trump “unfit” to serve in the White House, and gave a blistering denunciation of the GOP presidential nominee.
“He said it was long past time for Republicans to revoke their endorsements of Trump, noting that his criticisms of the businessman were shared by many in the GOP. 

“Yes, I think the Republican nominee is unfit to serve as president,” Obama said. “I said so last week, and he keeps on proving it.”

“This is not just my opinion,” Obama continued, pointing to the “repeated denunciations” of Trump’s statements by top Republicans including SpeakerPaul Ryan(R-Wis.), Senate Majority LeaderMitch McConnell(R-Ky.) and Sen.John McCain(R-Ariz.).

“The question, I think, they have to ask themselves is, if they are repeatedly having to say in very strong terms that what he has said is unacceptable, why are you still endorsing him?” Obama asked.”What does this say about your party that this is your standard-bearer?”

What made Obama’s comments all the more striking is that they did not come at a political convention or a rally with Democratic nomineeHillary Clinton, but at a joint White House press conference with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore.Obama said Trump’s latest controversy — the feud with the Khans — was not “an episodic gaffe,” noting GOP leaders are forced to address the businessman’s comments almost daily.

“There has to come a point at which you say ‘enough,” Obama said.

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CNN Host Calls Donald Trump a “Bullshit Artist” on Television – Video

** FILE ** In this Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007 file photo, journalist Fareed Zakaria moderates a panel discussion on Latin America and globalization during the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York. CNN is starting a weekly talk show on international issues led by Newsweek's Zakaria that will debut next Sunday with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair as an interview subject. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

While trying to explain the many different positions Donald Trump has on soooooo many different issues, CNN host Fareed Zakaria could not find a different word to use, so he opened his mouth on national television and blurted out that Donald Trump is a “bullshit artist!”

“There’s a term for this kind of thing — this is the mode of a bullshit artist,” Zakaria said on CNN’s “Wolf” on Monday about Trump’s reversal.

“It’s sometimes amusing, it’s entertaining, if the guy is trying to sell you a condo or a car. But for the president of the United States, it’s uniquely worrying,” he continued.

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Warren Buffett to Donald Trump – Release Your Taxes

Donald Trump’s campaign said the Republican presidential candidate will not be showing his taxes – a first in decades of presidential candidates. The reason Trump gives for not releasing his tax returns is that he is supposedly “being audited by the IRS.” There are some who believe this reason and they will most likely be voting for Trump in November, but others say a look at Trump’s taxes will show some devious transactions, transactions a snake-oil salesman like Trump will not be able to explain.

Warren Buffett, a legitimate billionaire, does not believe Trump’s excuse. Buffett has challenged Trump to release his taxes. Buffett said he is willing to meet and publicly exchange taxes with Trump “any place, any time.”

At a rally in Omaha, Neb., for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, Buffett knocked Trump’s argument that he can’t release his tax returns because he’s being audited by the IRS, saying he’s also under an audit.

“I’d be delighted to meet him any place, any time between now and election,” Buffett said. “And let people ask us questions about the items on there.”

Trump has received scrutiny from both Democrats and Republicans for refusing to release his tax returns, something that candidates have historically done while running for president.

Clinton has released more than 30 years of her returns.

“How many of you afraid to make tax returns public?” Buffett asked. “You’re only afraid if you have something to be afraid about.”

“He’s not afraid because of … the IRS,” he added. “He’s afraid of you.”

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Hillary Clinton Attacks Trump for Attacking Dead Soldier’s Family 

Donald Trump has said and done some awful and unthinkable things since starting his Republican presidential campaign. But when he attacked the family of a deceased soldier, a soldier who gave his life to protect this nation, Trump might have crossed the line that even some Republicans can’t forgive. 

Realizing the latest hole Trump willfully and yes, ignorantly jumped into, Hillary Clinton helped in piling on the dirt on Trump’s political grave.

Speaking at Imani Temple, an African American Catholic church, Clinton said she “tremble before those who would scapegoat other Americans.”

“Mr. Khan paid the ultimate sacrifice in his family, didn’t he?” Clinton said, according to Politico. 

“And what has he heard from Donald Trump? Nothing but insults and degrading comments about Muslims — a total misunderstanding of what made our country great, religious freedom, religious liberty. It’s enshrined in our Constitution, as Mr. Khan knows, because he’s actually read it.” 

Clinton addressed Trump’s comments again later on Sunday during another campaign stop in Ohio.

“To launch an attack as he did on Captain Khan’s mother, a Gold Star mother, who stood there on that stage with her husband honoring the sacrifice of their son,” she told reporters, according to CBS News. “I don’t know where the bounds are. I don’t know where the bottom is.”

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Meghan McCain Calls Donald Trump a “Barbarian” for Attacking Dead Soldier’s Family

Meghan McCain, daughter of Republican Senator and 2008 Republican presidential candidate, John McCain, is one of those Republicans who have had enough of Donald Trump.

After Donald Trump decided that it was perfectly fine to use his presidential platform to attack the parents of an American soldier who gave his life in service to this country, Meghan took to twitter to express her shock at the Republican presidential candidate, calling him a “barbarian” for going after the “parents of a fallen soldier.”

“I would ask what kind of barbarian would attack the parents of a fallen solider, but oh yeah it’s the same person who attacks POW’s,” McCain wrote on Twitter late Saturday.

Trump has faced backlash from Republicans and Democrats after he lashed out at Khizr Khan, the father of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq who gave an emotional speech last week at the Democratic National Convention.

Trump said Khan had “no right” to criticize him and questioned whether Khan’s wife, Ghazala Khan, was “allowed” to say anything.

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John McCain’s Granddaughter says – “I’m With Her”

Caroline McCain, the granddaughter of the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, John McCain, is a proud member of the “Never Trump” movement. In a post published by Medium, Caroline expressed her frustrations with the new leader of the Republican party, saying that Trump lost her support when he questioned her grandfather’s “war hero” status.

In a Medium post titled, “For this Republican, Never Trump means ‘I’m With Her,'” Caroline McCain writes that she became opposed to Trump last summer when he questioned her grandfather’s status as a war hero.

“I like people who weren’t captured,” Trump said at the time.

John McCain was held prisoner during the Vietnam War.

While the Arizona senator “responded with grace and forgiveness — as only a man who was held in captivity for years can,” Caroline McCain wrote, “I’ve been nursing a grudge ever since.”

“He insulted my grandfather and attacked the very qualities  —  loyalty, bravery and selflessness  —  that he and countless other POWs embody,” she added.

McCain wrote that Trump never won her over during his candidacy, calling him a “misogynist,” “racist” and “demagogue,” citing his remarks on women and minorities throughout his campaign.

She said she decided to support Clinton during the Democratic National Convention this week, where Democratic heavy-hitters touched on themes of American exceptionalism in an effort to win over reticent Republicans.

“The party I grew up in, the party I want to work in and change and push to be more inclusive, betrayed me and countless others,” McCain wrote.

“Loyalty to party can never trump loyalty to country. And loyalty to party means nothing when the party has been poisoned.”

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Muslim American Challenges Trump to Read the Constitution – Video

In their everlasting quest to be “Fair and Balance,” Fox News conveniently refused to broadcast certain DNC speeches to its audience. One of those speeches was done by Khzir Khan, a Muslim father whose son was killed by a bomb while he fought as an An American soldiers in Iraq.
It was a great speech overall, but the best part was clearly when he inquired about whether Trump ever read the constitution, then offered him his copy.

“Donald Trump, you are asking Americans to trust you with their future. Let me ask you – have you even read the United States Constitution?”

Khan then pulled his own copy out of his jacket pocket.

“I will gladly lend you my copy,” Khan said to deafening cheers from delegates.

First those who missed this speech, here it is.

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RNC Inadvertently Calls Donald Trump a Fake Republican

If a Republican donates to Democrats, then he or she is not a real Republican. That statement was made clear by the RNC when they call out Republican Doug Elmets. Elmets has donated a total of $2200 to Democrats and was a recent speaker at the Democratic Convention. He is not a fan of Donald Trump. 

To separate Elmets from the Republican party, the RNC put up a statement calling him a fake Republican because he donated to Democrats.

Now as RedState points out, “if Doug Elmets has no credibility to attack Trump because he has donated to Democrats, does Trump has credibility to support Trump, since he gave to way more Democrats? Or how about Ivanka Trump, who is also a huge Democrat donor and Corey Booker fundraiser – she was apparently a real enough Republican to get the prime speaking spot at the whole convention.

What a farce this whole thing has become.

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Donald Trump’s Flip Flopping Confuses his Closest Advisers 

Donald Trump is giving Mitt Romney a run for his money in the flip flopping department. Even his closest advisers are confused by the speed at which Trump changes his mind.

This week, Trump said the government should raise the federal minimum wage by roughly one-third, calling for a legal standard of $10 per hour. The federal minimum is currently $7.25 per hour.

The Republican presidential nominee has made a series of contradictory comments during his campaign, at times indicating wages are already too high and at other times suggesting a boost is in order.

At the Democratic National Convention this week in Philadelphia, Trump was hammered repeatedly by Democratic speakers for suggesting the minimum wage should be dropped.

But now that Trump is recommending a specific wage hike, it’s the right’s turn to gripe.

Trump’s latest position puts him at odds with conservative thinkers and most of the business community, which argues that a government-mandated wage hike would just mean fewer workers as businesses cut costs to meet the new requirement.

Even Trump’s own economic brain trust could not explain how the GOP nominee decided $10 per hour should be the new standard.

“I saw the statement that he made on TV, but I haven’t had the chance to talk to him in the last couple weeks about this,” Stephen Moore, an economist at the Heritage Foundation who is advising the Trump campaign on economic issues, told The Hill on Wednesday.

“I don’t know exactly what he was endorsing. The $10 minimum wage, that was the first I’d heard of that.”

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NY Daily News Calls for IRS to Stop Auditing Trump’s Taxes – #ReleaseYourTaxes

Did you know that the Trump campaign has said he will NOT be releasing his taxes before the November presidential election? Imagine that! A presidential candidate who has decided to stick it to the American people and keep his taxes secret. The Daily News asks, what is Trump hiding? If Trump was a straight-up businessman like he claims, then releasing his taxes should be easy.

“Supported by President Obama, the IRS should declare Trump’s tax audit settled,” the editorial board wrote Wednesday. “The benefit of preventing him from further politicizing the tax agency would far outweigh collecting however many millions of dollars he may have shorted the U.S.”

Trump has frequently cited the audit as the reason for not being able to release his tax returns. But the IRS has said Trump can still release his returns despite an audit.

“Trump’s returns might well show that he is worth far less than he has boasted; that he has given next to nothing to charity; that he has finagled to reduce his tax payments to zero; that he has tapped American taxpayers to subsidize his lavish lifestyle, or something even worse,” the editorial continues. “Voters should shame him, hound him and harangue him — and the IRS should cut its losses by cutting him loose.”

Trump would be the first presidential candidate in 40 years to not release his income taxes.

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“Anything is possible” says Obama on a Trump Presidency

The current president of the United States has come to terms with the fact that Donald Trump – arguable one of the worst choice Republicans have made to run for president – could win in November.

“Anything is possible,” Obama said in an interview that aired on NBC’s “Today” show Wednesday. “It is the nature of democracy that until those votes are cast and the American people have their say, we don’t know.”

“As somebody who has now been in elected office, at various levels, for about 20 years,” the president continued, “I’ve seen all kinds of crazy stuff happen.”

At a news conference in February, Obama rejected the idea that voters would elect Trump to succeed him in the Oval Office.

“I continue to believe Mr. Trump will not be president,” Obama said. “And the reason is because I have a lot of faith in the American people, and I think they recognize that being president is a serious job. It’s not hosting a talk show or a reality show, it’s not promotion, it’s not marketing, it’s hard. And a lot of people count on us getting it right, and it’s not a matter of pandering and doing whatever will get you in the news on a given day.”

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